Last week, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced a plan that includes a 9/11 curriculum to be taught in several schools throughout the U.S. The curriculum will be tested this year at schools in New York, California, Indiana, Alabama, New Jersey, Illinois, and Kansas.
From the Associated Press:
“[The curriculum] was developed with the help of educators by the Brick, New Jersey-based Sept. 11 Education Trust, and was based on primary sources, archival footage and more than 70 interviews with witnesses, family members of victims and politicians, including Giuliani and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a New York senator at the time of the attacks.
The curriculum is taught through videos, lessons and interactive exercises, including one that requires students to use Google Earth software to map global terrorist activity.”
This could be a real eye-opening program for all those middle and high schoolers who don’t have any recollection of those important events. It will be interesting to see how this curriculum is received and if it will be implemented in more states down the road.
